Natasha

 

 “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year.

It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose,

New feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.”

G. K. Chesterton

 

As I sat pondering making New Year Resolutions

G. K. Chesterton’s words above echoed in my mind

Soon I began wondering how I could accomplish this

When I decided to look to one of my wise feline kind

 

Young Natasha had been born out in the cruel world

She and her mother and her siblings had been homeless

She now spends a lot of her time looking out the window

Out into an extremely cruel world filled with so much stress

 

As I sat gazing at her peering out that frosted window

I somehow began seeing the world through her feline soul

Envisioning what her sage New Year Resolutions would be

If she and the other animals of the world could make them so

 

The top of young Natasha’s New Year Resolution List

Would probably be more Compassion to Earth’s needy

Resolving to more freely share what we have with others

To not be so egotistical, self centred, or extremely greedy

 

Second on Natasha’s Feline New Year Resolution List

Would be to embrace Diversity in every shape, size, and form

Resolving to put ourselves into another creature’s shoes so to speak

And trying to comprehend, that every living being is part of the norm

 

Finally, on young Natasha’s Feline New Year Resolution List

Would be Thankfulness for the many blessings we each receive

Resolving to spread good will and good cheer, one being at a time

Realizing we can all truly make a difference in life, if we just believe

 

To attempt to see life,

As other living beings might see,

Whether they are domesticated or wild,

Has always a very beneficial exercise for me

 

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